I just setup a gmail account, just gotta turn on legacy smtp

I use mailgun. They give 1000 emails for free monthly which is plenty for me.

Send grid has no approval process and will give you 100/day for free

Postfix installed on the server itself. My apps don't send many emails, why go through the complication and cost of hosting email externally?

Gmail

Why isnt there a service that doesnt care what you do with your emails as long as you only sending max a few emails a day?

Because it would be overrun with phishing abuse in a matter of minutes?

Amazon SES. My monthly bills are between 3 and 8 cents per month

Mailtrap

AWS SES or Hetzner (where my mail id also hosted)

Guys, we are on r/selfhosted, and all the top replies are recommending cloud services? The actual fuck. I personally host my own postal server and it works great.

Docker Mail Server

All you need is a static IP address, a DNS record, a PTR record, an SPF record, and a DKIM record. See, it's simple, right?

Started using Purelymail. Easy setup with my multiple domains. Really cheap.

gmail with separate account than primary one

MailJet

Are you sending lots of mails to a large group of users. If not why not use any normal e-mail service like gmail?

gmail with an app specific password.

Strato

Mailjet. Free for 6000 emails/mo, which for me is plenty to cover backup notification, monitoring system notifications, etc.

A bit overkill but mxroute. Complete own Mail-environment for sending and receiving.

About 50.- a year I think it was

Selfhosted Mailcow.

I use Fastmail with a specific domain and/or aliases to separate it easily by rules as needed. But I do pay for Fastmail and only send emails to myself so may or may not be applicable to you.

The SMTP relay that comes with my M365 tenant.

Sendgrid

I have secondary gmail account just for that.

i personally found SendGrid easy to setup and cost effective

PurelyMail

Sendgrid… you’d be well within the free tier.

Delegating mail to an external service means you're not self hosting it.

Sending email is something you can just do. There's no need for an external service unless:

• You're trying to deliver email to external users.
• You really need your email to get through without ending up in people's spam folder.

I used zoho. $16/yr for mail.mydomain and myname@mydomain set up. Use groups to set up different streams/mailboxes for all the things (gitlab@/cloud@/admin@/etc). It's super easy to point things at.

G suite account supports inbound and outbound relaying.

I use fastmail. Since I'm already paying for it as my normal email service, I started using it as my incomming and outgoing email provider for seldhosted apps. Works fine, no complaints.

Gmail

Gmail with app specific password + Postfix docker container loganmarchione/docker-postfixrelay. I configure gmail in one spot (the container) and everything else connects to that container to relay out. You can easily limit destination email addresses with the container as well, so you don’t have to worry about an app going rogue.

I pay $7 for a noreply user in my business starter Google workspace.

mxroute

they have a bf sale right now

A VPS with Mailcow.

Are there any third party services that don't require phone numbers for sign-ups?

Mailrise + pushover

Apple mail

Interesting to not have seen PostMark mentioned

I got a Black Friday special at MXRoute a few years ago - $15 for the year.

Host whatever domains you want then for email.

Might get a bargain again this year if they do Black Fridays